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Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
Published: Dec 1969
Genre: Children & Young Adults Fiction - Social Issues - Values & Virtues
Retail Price: $9.99
Ages: 11 - 14 Pages: 177
This Newbery Honor Book by acclaimed author Avi is available again through Scholastic--in an After Words paperback edition!
In this thought-provoking examination of freedom, patriotism, and respect, ninth-grader, Philip Malloy, is kept from joining the track team by his failing grades in English class. Convinced that the teacher just doesn't like him, Philip concocts a plan to get transferred out of her class. Breaking the school's policy of silence during the national anthem, he hums along, and ends up in a crisis at the center of the nation's attention.